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Proverbs 22:14
14The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit. The one who is cursed by the Lord will fall into it.
Proverbs 22:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.
- New International Version (NIV)The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit; a man who is under the Lord’s wrath falls into it.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; He who is abhorred by the Lord will fall there.
Context of Proverbs 22:14
12The Lord’s eyes watch over knowledge, but he overturns the words of a treacherous person. 13A lazy person says, “There’s a lion outside! I’ll be murdered in the streets!” The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit. The one who is cursed by the Lord will fall into it. 15Foolishness is firmly attached to a child’s heart. Spanking will remove it far from him. 16Oppressing the poor for profit ⌞or⌟ giving to the rich certainly leads to poverty.
Read all of Proverbs 22Proverbs 22:14 word by word
שׁוּחָ֣ה עֲ֭מֻקָּה פִּ֣י זָר֑וֹת זְע֥וּם יְ֝הוָ֗ה יִפָּל שָֽׁם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 22:14
- Proverbs 2:16⌞Wisdom will⌟ also save you from an adulterous woman, from a loose woman with her smooth talk,
- Proverbs 5:3The lips of an adulterous woman drip with honey. Her kiss is smoother than oil,
- Proverbs 6:24to keep you from an evil woman and from the smooth talk of a loose woman.
- Proverbs 7:5in order to guard yourself from an adulterous woman, from a loose woman with her smooth talk.
- Proverbs 23:27A prostitute is a deep pit. A loose woman is a narrow well.
- Judges 16:20She said, “Samson, the Philistines are attacking!” Samson woke up. He thought, “I’ll get out of this as usual and shake myself free.” (He didn’t realize that the Lord had left him.)
- Nehemiah 13:26I said, “Wasn’t it because of marriages like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? There wasn’t a king like him among all nations. God loved him, and God made him king of all Israel. But his non-Israelite wives led him to sin.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26I find that a woman whose thoughts are ⌞like⌟ traps and snares is more bitter than death itself. Even her hands are ⌞like⌟ chains. Whoever pleases God will escape her, but she will catch whoever continues to sin.
- Deuteronomy 32:19The Lord saw this and rejected them, because his own sons and daughters had made him angry.
- Psalms 81:12So I let them go their own stubborn ways and follow their own advice.
Commentaries on Proverbs 22:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit - In Proverbs 23:27, he says, A whore is a Deep Ditch:, oud a strange woman is a Narrow Pit. The allusions in these three places are too plain to be misunderstood. Virgil's hell has been adduced in illustration: - - Sate sanguine Divum, Tros Anchisiade, facilis decensus Averni; Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis: Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc Opus, hic Labor est. Pauci quos aequus…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14The fall of the man into the snare of the harlot seems to be the consequence of the abhorrence or wrath of Yahweh. That abhorrence is, however, the result of previous evil. The man is left to himself, and sin becomes the penalty of sin.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14Verse 14 The vile sin of licentiousness commonly besots the mind beyond recovery.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14An immoral woman uses flattery and seduction to lure a young man into committing a sin.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. The mouth--or flattering speeches (Pr 5:3; 7:5) ensnare man, as pits, beasts. God makes their own sin their punishment.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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